Loasaceae

Loasaceae

Loasaceae

Family of flowering plants

Loasaceae is a family of 15–20 genera and about 200–260 species of flowering plants in the order Cornales, native to the Americas and Africa. Members of the family include annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous plants, and a few shrubs and small trees. Members of the subfamily Loasoideae are known to exhibit rapid thigmonastic stamen movement when pollinators are present.[2]

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Taxonomy

In the classification system of Dahlgren the Loasaceae were placed in the order Loasales in the superorder Loasiflorae (also called Loasanae). The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system places them in the related order Cornales in the asterid clade.[3]

Genera

21 genera are accepted:[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. hdl:10654/18083.
  2. [2]
    Henning, Tilo; Weigend, Maximilian (2013). "Beautiful, complicated--and intelligent? Novel aspects of the thigmonastic stamen movement in Loasaceae". Plant Signaling & Behavior. 8(6) (e24605): e24605. Bibcode:2013PlSiB...8E4605H. doi:10.4161/psb.24605. PMC 3909056. PMID 23603953.
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    Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1111/boj.12385. ISSN 0024-4074.
  4. [4]
    Loasaceae Juss. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
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